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National Enquirer:
NATIONAL ENQUIRER WORLD EXCLUSIVE: JOHN EDWARDS LOVE CHILD SCANDAL! — The woman linked to Presidential candidate John Edwards in a cheating scandal is more than six months pregnant and telling a close confidante that Edwards is the father of her unborn child, The NATIONAL ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.
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Directorblue / Doug Ross:
A Clinton link to a John Edwards' Love Child Scandal? — Updates below — including the Clinton link to the National Enquirer and an alleged girlfriend named by several investigative reporters. — Drudge just broke the story about a forthcoming National Enquirer shocker. Granted, it's the Enquirer.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
How Many Degrees Of Separation? — Blogosphere buzz today centers on a Drudge story regarding alleged marital infidelity for a major contender in the Democratic presidential primaries. The story comes from the National Enquirer, so the reliability of the information seems rather debatable.
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Immodest Proposals
Mickey Kaus / Slate:THE ENQUIRER DROPS ANOTHER EDWARDS SCANDAL BOMB.
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Patrick Healy / The Caucus:Yes, Mrs. Clinton Was There, Too — IN THE CLINTON HELICOPTER …
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TownHall Blog
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Hard-liners for Jesus — As Christians across the world prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus, it's a fitting moment to contemplate the mountain of moral, and mortal, hypocrisy that is our Christianized Republican Party. — There's nothing new, of course, about the Christianization of the GOP.
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Stop The ACLU
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Tom Baxter / Southern Political Report:
Edwards takes lead in InsiderAdvantage Iowa poll — John Edwards has leapfrogged over his rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and leads the Democratic field in Iowa, according to the latest InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion poll. In the Republican caucus race, Mike Huckabee continues to hold a narrow lead over Mitt Romney.
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Open Left, The Moderate Voice, Obsidian Wings, Liberal Values, MyDD, Rasmussen Reports, DownWithTyranny! and TPM Election Central
New York Times:
Bush Lawyers Discussed Fate of C.I.A.Tapes — WASHINGTON — At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the Central Intelligence Agency between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy videotapes showing the secret interrogations of two operatives from Al Qaeda …
Washington Post:
Iraq Funds Approved In Senate Budget Bill — Antiwar Democrats Rebuffed in 70-25 Vote — The Senate last night approved a $555 billion omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year, shortly after bowing to President Bush's demand for $70 billion …
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Captain's Quarters
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USA Today:
Huckabee admaker calls cross imagery “absolutely accidental;” Paul says “fascism' will be ‘carrying a cross’ — Asked about Republican rival Mike Huckabee's Christmas-themed ad, which we wrote about yesterday and has attracted attention in part because of the image of a cross that many see hovering …
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PoliBlog (TM), Political Radar, Buck Naked Politics, Riehl World View, Balloon Juice, Reason Magazine, The Swamp and The Corner
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Huckabee Adviser Clarifies Remark About Homosexuality And Necrophilia: They're Both “Aberrant Behavior,” But They're At “Opposite Ends Of The Spectrum" — By Greg Sargent - December 18, 2007, 4:57PM — Oh, man. One of Mike Huckabee's chief advisers has just attempted to clarify …
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Think Progress, Shakespeare's Sister, The Carpetbagger Report, TownHall Blog, The Corner, MoJoBlog, The Daily Dish and Lean Left
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Greg Gordon / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Inside a GOP effort to rig the 2002 New Hampshire elections — WASHINGTON — A former GOP political operative who ran an illegal election-day scheme to jam the phone lines of New Hampshire Democrats during the state's tight 2002 U.S. Senate election said in a new book and an interview …
Adi Ignatius / Time:
Person of the Year: Vladimir Putin — A Tsar Is Born — No one is born with a stare like Vladimir Putin's. The Russian President's pale blue eyes are so cool, so devoid of emotion that the stare must have begun as an affect, the gesture of someone who understood that power might be achieved …
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On Deadline
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
No. 1 Book, and It Offers Solutions — In 1967, Jack Wennberg, a young medical researcher at Johns Hopkins, moved his family to a farmhouse in northern Vermont. — Dr. Wennberg had been chosen to run a new center based at the University of Vermont that would examine medical care in the state.
Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
Picture of Secret Detentions Emerges in Pakistan — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's military and intelligence agencies, apparently trying to avoid acknowledging an elaborate secret detention system, have quietly set free nearly 100 men suspected of links to terrorism, few of whom were charged …
David Horovitz / Jerusalem Post:
Prosecutor: Argentina bombings ordered by Iran — Iran orchestrated two bombings in Buenos Aires in the mid-1990s, killing more than 100 people, primarily because it was furious over Argentina's cessation of nuclear cooperation with the Islamic Republic, a top Argentinean prosecutor said Tuesday …
Andrew Tilghman / Washington Monthly:
The Army's Other Crisis — Why the best and brightest young officers are leaving — Matt Kapinos was born into the military, at a U.S. Army hospital outside Frankfurt, Germany. It was 1979, and his father was an Army officer, one of thousands of soldiers stationed along the plains of central Europe.
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